This can't be first post! Well, I'll be!
Anyway, this is really quite interesting. Maybe someone should contact the Gates Foundation to see if this could help eradicate malaria in 3rd World nations. It looks like a pretty damn cheap solution.
I know! You'd be amazed how many poor slobs are scribing out every official document on copperplate. What a waste! Not to mention the stockpiles of white space in government warehouses for tweaking kerning pairs.
Things seem to grow way better in warmer climes. If that wasn't true then keen gardeners would not have hot houses in their backyards and the tropics would not be forested.
Yeah, like anopheles mosquitos and tsetse flies and all those lovely parasites that we temperate folks are only now noticing in our backyards.
So maybe every few hundred years 15% to 30% of living organisms die out. And likely 15% to 30% of new organisms develop.
Yeah, that would explain all those unicorns, dog-headed men and guys using their giant feet as boats that people were talking about three hundred years ago. They just all died out from natural climate changes.
Thank God for the Little Ice Age, then! Lord knows we don't need no manticora around these days!
The picture they chose for the article looks more like a typical shot of the core in Sagittarius from Earth. "Bird's-eye view" in this context would probably mean "seen from galactic north".
Hello! The Economist! They tend to be rational free-market types here! Before we knee-jerk on this stuff, can we actually consider that their points might have merit?
Y'know, if we had to import 50% of our food or 50% of our manufactured goods to this country, then I'm sure that folks would be livid. However, importing 50% of our economic lifeblood is considered Business As Usual. What a fscking crock.
I recall that snarky comments and intellectual sarcasm were de rigeur in my crowd back in the day. Probably a previous poster was right when he said these kids were edited, but I've heard eleven year olds have similar conversations without benefit of editing.
Gila monster bites can be lethal, folks, so let's not rush out to our local herpeton store just yet.
(Of course I realize all the above posts were funny, but I thought I'd state the obvious.)
Which brings up a point--when you isolate the chemical and purify it, how many liters of lizard saliva do you need for one dose? Maybe lizard ranching could be a growth industry!
This also reminds me of a biological process called hormesis in which low levels of radiation or toxins actually stimulate the cell-reparing machinery enough to snuff out weak incipient cancers before they can grow. Evidently just a little bit of bad stuff it better than none at all.
I remember reading way back when that the 604e PPC chip was at least six times more efficient (therefore cooler) than the comparable Pentium at the time. I've got 2 1-GHz chips in my g4 and never hear the fan fire up even when I'm running 18 tracks of audio with plug-in f/x. But, then again, I'm not overclocking anything.
Anybody overclock PPC chips and have the motherboard fry?
I say, find someone who wants to sell his charcoal 766 MHz G4 for cheap now that he's getting a cheese grat--I mean, a G5. I run the prepress department at a medium-sized printshop and I have my 300MHz beige G3 box running a print server for the Stylus RIP and the PictroProofer.
Why? Well, it's fast enough to handle those jobs but not much else anymore (the latest Adobe products are total bloatware), it has an AppleTalk printer port, and a real live SCSI port.
Bottom line--save it for those OS9 apps you really just want to savor without the headache of Classic Mode.
Actually, when I was a kid (early 1980's), the fact that the TI-99 4A only ran BASIC and the default boot on the IBM PC was a BASIC prompt certainly got me to thinking about programming. I mean, what else were you going to do with a BASIC line but type 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"? I'm not a programmer now but at age 10 I was writing choose-your-own-adventure and horse racing games on my TI. What else was there to do?
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This can't be first post! Well, I'll be! Anyway, this is really quite interesting. Maybe someone should contact the Gates Foundation to see if this could help eradicate malaria in 3rd World nations. It looks like a pretty damn cheap solution.
Except, you don't choose an evil tamagotchi.
No, in Soviet Russia, the evil Tamagotchis choose you!
I know! You'd be amazed how many poor slobs are scribing out every official document on copperplate. What a waste! Not to mention the stockpiles of white space in government warehouses for tweaking kerning pairs.
Did anyone notice the weirdly suggestive diction, "Love is for grownups"? That scares me.
Long-baseline parallax observations of stars for more precise mapping of the local spiral arm, for one.
Possibly long-baseline infereometry, for two (although it might not work in this instance--I'm not so savvy here).
Allelujia, brother.
Ingrid Bergman wonders what Bacall is doing in this movie and calls her agent.
Spock, get me those, color pictures of, Mars, on screen!
No, no, no, iron is a *metal*, not a gas!
Hahahaha.
Yeah, like anopheles mosquitos and tsetse flies and all those lovely parasites that we temperate folks are only now noticing in our backyards.
When I grow up, I wanna live in a greenhouse!
Yeah, that would explain all those unicorns, dog-headed men and guys using their giant feet as boats that people were talking about three hundred years ago. They just all died out from natural climate changes.
Thank God for the Little Ice Age, then! Lord knows we don't need no manticora around these days!
A stern warning, definitely. Suspension? A little overkill.
Personally, I would love to take a trip to mars. To hell with the "risks". To me, it would be worth it!!
Testify, brother!!
Hell, just leaving cis-lunar space would be worth it.
No, I'm afraid the most common color-blindness is red/green. First google link
The picture they chose for the article looks more like a typical shot of the core in Sagittarius from Earth. "Bird's-eye view" in this context would probably mean "seen from galactic north".
Too bad it's slashdotted.
Y'know, if we had to import 50% of our food or 50% of our manufactured goods to this country, then I'm sure that folks would be livid. However, importing 50% of our economic lifeblood is considered Business As Usual. What a fscking crock.
The lava lamp comment was hilarious.
(Of course I realize all the above posts were funny, but I thought I'd state the obvious.)
Which brings up a point--when you isolate the chemical and purify it, how many liters of lizard saliva do you need for one dose? Maybe lizard ranching could be a growth industry!
This also reminds me of a biological process called hormesis in which low levels of radiation or toxins actually stimulate the cell-reparing machinery enough to snuff out weak incipient cancers before they can grow. Evidently just a little bit of bad stuff it better than none at all.
Anybody overclock PPC chips and have the motherboard fry?
Why? Well, it's fast enough to handle those jobs but not much else anymore (the latest Adobe products are total bloatware), it has an AppleTalk printer port, and a real live SCSI port.
Bottom line--save it for those OS9 apps you really just want to savor without the headache of Classic Mode.
It went, like, bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang!
Actually, when I was a kid (early 1980's), the fact that the TI-99 4A only ran BASIC and the default boot on the IBM PC was a BASIC prompt certainly got me to thinking about programming. I mean, what else were you going to do with a BASIC line but type 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"? I'm not a programmer now but at age 10 I was writing choose-your-own-adventure and horse racing games on my TI. What else was there to do?
Bravo!